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Woman with Red Hair and Green Eyes (The Sin)
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About this work
The fatal women and embracing couples in Picasso’s art of the early 1900s exhibit striking affinities with the same themes in the prints of Norwegian symbolist Edvard Munch. Munch’s paintings and prints were widely circulated in Paris, shown at exhibitions, and available through dealers and fellow artists. Long hair as a key symbol of the fatal woman’s sexual allure is a recurrent theme in Munch’s art, as evident in this lithograph of 1900.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineWoman with Red Hair and Green Eyes (The Sin), 1901. Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944). Color lithograph; sheet: 77.7 x 49.2 cm (30 9/16 x 19 3/8 in.); image: 69.8 x 40.2 cm (27 1/2 x 15 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1983.185
